25mm Parthian Cataphracts

Just finished these for Willie at the club.  They are Navigator Miniatures, which you can get from Magister Militum.  They are very neat figures and well detailed, although with the occasional annoying bit of flashing.  Nothing that can't be solved with the craft knife, though.

I've tried to make the command figures stand out by using slightly brighter metallics.

I also put extra work into the borders for the command figures.

Not too much detail, though, because there isn't really all that much space.

Having said that, the cloaks help.

Front shot of the command.  I painted the standard to represent the sun, moon and stars against the backdrop of night.

It's my attempt at something Zoroastrian - the triumph of life and light over the darkness.  Or something like that...

I varied the cloaks a little.

I also mixed up the metallic colours to make them a bit more interesting.  There's a lot of armour on these figures!

This is how they will look in battle.  I used pliers to shift the arms on the guys with vertical spears.  They came as one-handed on the horizontal, so with the very long spears Willie wanted there would be issues with snapping off once they start to be handled.  The guys thrusting two-handed are safer, so I left those alone.  Willie wanted them to be left slightly shiny because he likes the look.

Life in July is going to be very busy, so I probably won't be able to hand this unit over before Claymore in August.  I think I'll give it pride of place at the forefront of the right wing Cataphracts in the Seleucid army - may it perform well!  I'm kind of assuming that Willie will want to reprise his role as Antiochus after the drubbing the Romans dished out when we played the battle just before the New Year.  There's also a general figure wearing a lion pelt, so once he's done he can join in as the great man himself.